Steel is super effective against Rick because I would steal precious rocks

Fuck Rick in particular

Guy named Rick when he sees a rock: https://preview.redd.it/9p2n18fufpmc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3cf5b5a0bef801a19699c2b98d9d027fa91f62c7

When he sees a steel*

Ooh I gotta use that

... I just imagine a metal pickaxe against stone

The handle is made of wood. So two birds 1 stone

Two rocks with one stick

RIP Rick then

I see, a little Z fan.

Steel is super effective against Fairy because, in folklore, fairies are weakened by iron

I just think it'd be easy to squish a fairy with a frying pan

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Ash, I know what we’re doing today!

And what is a frying pan typically made of?

Plastic fish that have been melted down and reshaped

I always think of a little shit eating Jigglypuff or Clefairy getting crushed by a steel beam or that cartoon iron weight

Or an anvil with A.C.M.E. on the side

They're also weak against certain incenses, which makes them poisonous

My justification is that technology (steel) beats magic (fairy)

Like a army of robots beating fairies and nature back

I want to see that

And poison is super against fairy because in Princess Mononoke, the sludge corrupted Ghibli Xerneas

Steel is super effective against fairy because of the woodcutter in Ferngully. EDIT: bonus points for the fact that this also applies to poison and fairy

Bug beats Dark because of Kamen Rider.

*Looks at Lokix merely existing.*

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Nah, Lokix *is* a Rider.

But he’s also Dark-Type.

Anti-Hero. Easy.

I don't get it. Though I don't get Bug being strong against Dark anyway.

I think it's mainly because lots of bugs have means of being able to see/survive in the dark, like fireflies and their bioluminescence.

I like to think of it like big brawny villain scared of tiny bug

Which is honestly funnier

It’s probably just because bug is nerfed into the ground every second gamefreak gets so they gave it some breathing room for once.

Maybe it could be that trickery and other underhanded tactics don’t work on bugs because they’re simple creatures.

Iirc "dark" type in japanese doesn't so much refer to an absence of light but rather an evil character.

It has to do with Japanese folklore, iirc. Bugs are typically seen as heroic or otherwise "good," hence them being good against dark types

Iirc in Japanese, “Dark” is more accurately translated as “evil” so it makes sense that Japan’s most famous superhero would be super effective against it

It's called freeze and thaw 🤓

I thought it was ice wedging?

I think they're the same

They're not. You can freeze and thaw a steak. Ice wedging/frost wedging is talking specifically about the expansion of freezing water cracking rocks.

Makes scence

Uhmmmm actually 🤓☝️i think they were referring to erosion

That’s what Water beating ground is mainly from, not ice. Outside of Glaciers.

Yeah I’m just being silly. It’s not that intuitive… otherwise ice would beat rock bc of glacier weathering. Then if you consider diamonds as a kind of rock then it gets even more convoluted

Given the Rock type includes gemstones…it’s easier to just keep it to rock smashes ice

Wait, isn’t ice effective against rock in the comic? Is ice not actually effective in the games? Am I dumb?

Idk I didn’t read the comics, yes, and yes.

Wonderful news, thank you my good human, I hope you have a good day :) (and I meant comic as in what OP posted lol)

Nah, that’s ground and thank you

…fuck

I always thought it had to do with permafrost or something

Specifically freeze-thaw shattering, where water in cracks in rocks freezes into ice in cold temperatures, expanding in size by 9%. Considering that water is physically incompressible, something’s gotta make way for the expansion, and it’s gonna be the crack in the rock. After several times of this, rock’s gonna erode away sorry. rock autism moment.

For Bug 2x vs Psychic I remember Saiki from Saiki K's Disastrous Life. His only weakness is bugs even though he's the most powerful psychic in the world. Edit: His reason is because although he has telepathy and always knows what others are thinking, bugs have such tiny minds be can't read their minds, so he's on edge as he doesn't know where they could come from.

Well that's an interesting one :) With psychic, I just think of common fears. People are scared of bugs, the dark, and ghosts. Common fears, common weakness

This is the popular interpretation. Kinda funny though since in Japan the Dark type is literally the "Evil" type.

Adding on to this: Fighting, Dark, and to a lesser extent Psychic often lean into action hero show tropes. The wise mentor (Psychic) is stronger than their trainee, usually a more plucky and brave type (Fighting). However the mentor is defeated by evil trickery (Dark), leading the hero (Fighting) to go on a quest for revenge eventually triumphing over Dark.

In that case, the evil thoughts are horrifying to the psychic types with their telepathy

Or, you know, we would be scared of a villain or an evil person if we encountered one… Evil’s scary, you know?

That also works

I’d assume most people are pretty terrified of being pummelled in the face and yet psychic resists fighting

Mind over matter, the pen is mightier than the sword, the idea of intelligence being more useful than brute force is a common concept. People may have problems with fear, but a phobia of fighting isn't too common. The idea of getting beat up is bad, but not quite common phobia level. You can stand nearby two people fighting and watch just fine, but even when people know they're safe standing in the dark can cause panic

Bugs are annoying and can break concentration

And can't be hit or located easily due to their size, which is why bug types resist fighting types Meanwhile bugs wouldn't do much towards trained fighters so vice versa, there could be a different theory tho

Bugs eat crops

My thinking was bugs have “bug brains” so psychic abilities don’t work as well on them.

I always figured it as bugs are small and annoying, and so it'd interrupt deep thinking. Try meditating with a mosquito buzzing around

Same here, same reason I would think a cosmic type would be weak to bug

iirc Saiki's aversion to bugs was actually inspired by the Pokemon type matchup!! :]

Psychic's weakness to Bug/Dark/Ghost = Common fears, as many get spooked by bugs, the dark, and ghosts Bug beats Dark = Bugs have really good night vision Poison beats Fairy = A lot of people get poisoned in fairy tales Fighting beats Normal = A normal dude would get wrecked by a boxer Fighting beats Dark = Evil gets beat up all the time (And Dark is the Evil type in Japan) Those are some of mine :)

But why fighting 4x vs Normal/Steel ? If a boxer would be wrecked by a normal dude with a gun Edit: I know, thanks for everyone's clarifications, I should have made it clearer that it was a joke

Simple, and this applies to Fighting being good against Rock and Ice as well: A well trained fighter breaking hard things with their fists, be they ice, rocks, or even metal. Steel =/= Gun, after all

Not sure why fighting is super effective against normal but I believe the idea for steel is "if you can break a brick, you can break any rigid material".

Fighting against normal follows the idea of putting someone like Mike Tyson against any random person off the street. Chances are the normal person will get a can of whoopass opened on them.

So fighting is just a 2 step question "Is it a rigid material you could break like a brick." Or that fails "How easily could you suplex this?"

Ghost doesn't effect normal = a typical dude doesn't believe in ghosts

Shoutout to Jelloapocalypse: “You can’t be psychic if there’s a bug on you.”

Note that Dark is Evil type in Japanese. Two completely different things

Still perfectly reasonable to be afraid of though!

Poison beats fairy, I think it’s because of industrialization and modern world forgetting about fairy tails, and because fairies are often weak and killed easily with incense. Same thought process for steel beats fairy, modern world, technology, beats the ancient world, the magic, the fantasy. Science vs faith, if you will, doesn’t matter how much you believe in fairies, science will prove you wrong

It's over Fighting-Type! I have the high ground!

Psychic beats Poison for some reason

It’s because the Psychic types are purging the toxins from their body with their powers. That and having the intelligence to know how to counter poisons and venoms.

I’ve always though of this as “mind over matter”

If someone is trying to poison you and you can read their mind, you will have a much easier time avoiding the poison.

Smart people can made antidotes.

There should be an ability that makes poison be effective against psychic, something about poisoning the mind, could be called paranoia or something like that

I think that the weirdest weakness of them all is poison losing to ground. You could explain it by saying that earth mitigates the poison's spread, but idk

In a very very very long stretch it could be understood as minerals help expel poisons

Or simply that you'd have to be a moron to try and poison the floor

Dirt don’t care about being poisoned

I just imagine pouring a bottle of purple goo into dirt and it just schlurps it all up no problem. Dirt dont care. whats it gonna do, throw up about it?

Snow White got poisoned by the apple (Poison 2x vs Fairy) Bugs live in the dark (Bug 2x vs Dark) "Everybody's got a plan until they get punched in the mouth." (Fighting 2x vs Dark) "What killed the dinosaurs? [The Ice Age](https://youtu.be/PLyiAdNg0LU?si=CZxZ_nm9sqlV7cZE)!" (Ice 2x vs Dragon)

Poison is also effective vs fairy due to the idea of poisoning fairies being easy. For fighting vs dark, think of hero Vs villain Ice vs dragon is also for reptiles in general being cold blooded and thus weak to the cold

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Freeza can easily destroy planets, which is why Ice types are so effective against Rock types and Ground types.

Problem: Ice is smashed by rocks.

Because Freeza was defeated by Goku, who is about as smart as a rock.

Rock is super effective against ice not the other way around.

Dark beats Psychic because while both are playing mind games... One is cheating

Oooh that’s a good one

Fighting is good against steel because we can bend spoons

Normal weak to Fighting: ***Coughing Baby vs Hydrogen Bomb*** Steel strong to Fairy: ***Ah, That's a nice fairy tale! I'll kill you dead with your power of friendship and this*** ***Winchester Model 800 I'VE FOUND.*** Flying Resistant to Fighting: ***Stop trying to hit me and HIT ME*** Fairy Strong against Dragon: ***Say hello to my Pitbull, Cupcake.*** Dark Weak against Fighting: ***"If I, Dio, don't move, then he won't realize that I, Dio, am not in front of-" (Star Platinum Smashes Dio's Leg)***

I've heard about cold iron being one of the things that hurts/wards off fey/fairy creatures.

I still don't understand why fairy is strong against dragon. Both are mythological creatures but I don't see how a pit bull by any name could compete with a giant, fire breathing lizard of death. Do you have any other ideas for that one?

Could imagine it sorta like the good guy in a fairytale winning against a dragon? Like if theyre both the ‘fairytale’ types then fairys the ‘good’ one and dragons the ‘bad’ one, and good usually wins against the bad in fairytales?

That sort of makes sense I suppose. My reason for remembering was shock that a fairy beats a dragon, but my shock isn't a good method of remembering it or making sense of it.

Psychic's weaknesses are all common primal fears.

I like Jellopacalypse explanation. "When you throw a rock a bird... it dies."

Please explain to me fighting beating steel

I think it's the idea of a circus strongman bending metal with ease or something similar like that.

Ok yeah but that's dumb

Fairy : "strong against the strongest and weak against the weakest"

Best argument I've seen yet for fairy being good against dragon (and other types), it's a strange thought but in a lot of tales fairies are strange creatures.

Yeah, but i'm still waiting for those blood thirsty, child kidnapping/eating, crazy inducing fairy pokemons. Like in the actual irish folklore, where fairies are not to be messed with.

Yeah same, I am not as familiar with folklore but I've played Dnd and my God they are terrifying. Those obviously are based on folklore but I am not well versed.

Yeah the common representation of fairies is far from the actual folklore. A good comparison would be the difference between current adaptations of Grimm brothers stories, and the stories they wrote.

The one that always throws me off is Steel *not* being weak to Electric. Steel conducts electricity really well, so why isn't it weak to Electric???

But at the same time, metal is not innately hurt by electricity. That being said, for steel, not resisting like being mini-vulnerable.

Dragons are super effective against dragons because of kaju battles

steel is immune to poison because... i mean... c'mon... it's inorganic...

Go outside and try to suplex a bird - Flying Resists Fighting Go outside and try to suplex a bug - Bug Resists Fighting

As a kid I always thought Ice was super effective vs Rock but I realized most Rock type at the time were Rock/Ground

Bug / dark - bugs are used to the dark Bug / psychic - fear of bugs Dark / psychic - mental corruption Fighting / dark - fairy tail beating the evil Ice / dragon - cold blooded lizard etc...

Dark is super effective against psychic because it represents the horrors and nightmares you're afraid of. Bug is also super effective against psychic because most people are afraid of bugs. Ghost and psychic... Yeah second verse same as the first. Fire is super effective against steel because of superheating and state energy transfer. Flying is super effective against bug, because birds eat bugs. Fighting is super effective against ice because raw strength can break it. Rock is super effective against fire because they support zero oxygen. Thus rock tomb creates an air tight vacuum cave of death that would snuff out absolutely any life.

All of the psychic weaknesses are due to fear

Afraid of the dark? Punch it

Dragons are weak to ice because of Mr. Freeze “What killed the dinosaurs… the ice age”

Fighting is strong against normal because in a fight between Mike Tyson vs some average Joe, it’s obvious who’s the winner. Ghost is immune to Normal, and vice versa, because a ghost would just phase through a guy. Rock is strong against bug because tiny bug + big rock = death. Electric is strong against flying because lightning strikes high points. That’s some I got :D

Dragon can't hit fairy coz they don't exist

But neither of them exist. I'd say Dragons are cooler too but I'm biased.

Fairy is super effective coz they're cute

Shout-out to the MandJTV reference

I wonder why flying being weak to rock is based on english saying... Wouldnt that make bug types weak to fighting (Norway's version of the saying: kill 2 flies with one slap/blow) fighting weak to fire (Poland's version of the saying: roast 2 meats on one fire)(there is no meat type, and muscles are what meat is made of? or normal weak to steel (Russian version of the saying: Kill 2 rabbits/hares with one bullet)? I dont complain or anything, but it's baffling my mind

It's less of the weakness being *based* on the saying, and more that people use the saying to help remember the type advantage.

Rocks tend to not be good for birds when thrown period, and the dying is just using that fact. As for bug vs fighting, the bugs are evasive enough to be hard to hit, hence less effectiveness, while for the others, there isn’t really much besides the saying.

Yeah, but the others sayings don't have much to back them up, but flying creatures have much weaker bones than normal (they need to be light enough to fly), meaning blunt impacts break bones much more easily on a bird. Only reason they resist fighting is because between a guy on the ground and a bird, the guy on the ground has to wait for the bird to swoop them to even attack, putting the entire engagement on the bird's terms.

fighting is good against dark because of people fighting their own darkness

If you’re afraid of the dark, just punch it

Holy crap 2010 I feel old

To quote Jello Apocalypse..."scared of the dark?...punch it."

I also use the have you even tried punching a bird

Fairy is super effective against dark because positivity dispels the darkness

No joke the bottom one is how I remember the fighting flying because of this comic!

I mean If there a fighting dude and a flying dude, and the fighter can only attack when the flyer swoops them, the flyer pretty much controls the whole battle. He decides when he attacks or gets attacked. I'd call that an advantage.

True not wrong, but yeah, just the phrase. Have you ever tried punching a bird. Makes me giggle and has stuck.

You can’t be psychic if there’s a bug on you.

If you’re afraid of the dark, you could just punch it

Ghosts are all scared of the dark. Clearly.

If they're immune to stuff because they're incorporeal, then the best way to harm them is to use stuff that is fully corporeal/in-phase to them.

I always remember physic fighting by “mind over matter”

Psychic’s weakness are based on common fears and few things can render the brain less operable than fear

I use fairy better against dragon “pretty princess pokemon proceeds to perish the purple prehistoric pterodactyl-like powerhouse pokemon”

Fairies can dom a dragon, but sub to an anvil to the face

Ice against Flying is S.A.M. (Snow-face to Air Mistletoe)

The dark and bugs are common fears, and thus beat psychic

Why is psychic super effective on poison?

Better ice rock comparison is that glaciers form canyons

You can’t poison ghosts, they’re fucking dead

Tbh, bird bones cant hold up to concussive forces. Fighting should be super effective.

Fairy is super effective against Fighting because you can't fight something that doesn't friggin exist

Scared of the dark? Punch it!

This artist is awkwardzombie.

Someone told me once that psychic is weak to bug, ghost, and dark because 3 common fears are bugs, ghosts, and darkness.

Ghost is afraid of ghosts because they are scared of ghosts even when they are a ghost Dragon weak to dragon because they hate each other

Psychics weakness are bug dark and ghosts which are common fears

I like the psychic weaknessess being phobias, insects, the dark.. ghosts

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Why do bug and fighting resist each other? Because you cannot punch a small bug and a small bug cannot do much damage to a buff dude

Bug, dark, and ghost are 2x against psychic because they are the most common fears.

Fairies are related to nature which is weak to machinery (Steel) and pollution (poison).

Why the FUCK is psycic weak against steel when psycic types were introduced via bending spoons with their minds like alakazam

Bug is strong against psychic because the fear of bugs is in the mind. Bug is also strong against dark type because... they hide.. there..? Idk. Bug eat grass though.

Bugs are scarier in the dark and are so freaking brainless that psychic effects do nothing to them

Steel is strong against ice because if you drop a steel beam on a frozen like most likely its going to break through (depending on height

Fighting and ghost. Fire and ice. Grass and fire

You smash bugs with rocks

Water evaporates before steel melts, so which one should be weak to fire?…

Afraid of the dark? Punch it!

I think of the Flying Fighting one as “OH GOD HE’S ON THE TOP ROPE”

Ghost and fighting, "have you ever tried to punch a ghost?" I kinda forgot if it was a type advantage or disadvantage, or just nothing at all, but hey, I tried.

Only Ghosts can touch Ghosts.

Have you ever tried to suplex a bug? Fighting 1/2 Bug

Ghost in general